bindweed Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun any of several vines of the genera Convolvulus and Calystegia having a twining habit

WordNet

Bind"weed` noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Convolvulus; as, greater bindweed (C. Sepium); lesser bindweed (C. arvensis); the white, the blue, the Syrian, bindweed. The black bryony, or Tamus, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed.
    The fragile bindweed bells and bryony rings. Tennyson.

Webster 1913